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1Author:  Brand Civil War Collection: Brand, William FrancisAdd
 Title:  Brand Civil War Collection: Letter from William Francis Brand to Amanda Catherine Armentrout, 1863 May 23  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar 
 Description: As I have a good opportunity of sending you a few lines, I accept it with pleasure & hasten to inform you of my whearabouts & health, My health is very good but my greatgreat toe will I am afraid give me some trouble before it gets well I had to have part of mythe bone removed And I hope when it gets well this time that I may have no more trouble with it, I had inten ded comming down this eavin ng am not able on account of my presant lamneſs, I hope it may not be long before I get able to go about. for I get so lonesome Well very propberably I have the blues some times & you may well immagin thare cause” “I want to see my bonnie wee Kate”, “Well you must sympathise with me in my afflictios Well Kate you ought to have been in town on the 20th to have witneſst Dr. Hay opperrate on my toe. It seemed quite amu sing to Burk & Dr Hay. When I began to awake, one of the men waiting on me had on a yankee uniform I hollowed to him hault you yankee Burk told me to spit on him & I tried my best & some other childleſs things I was gilty of for a few minutes after I woke up I was very sorry I did not get to see Cous Lis but I would a great deal rather see my Kate for tis then I can enjoy my self, oh Kate I konow you would laughſ at me hop ping on crutches Well I must bring this uninterresting epstal to a close I would be most hap py to hear from you at any time I will come down as soon as I can bare to ride a horse I ask an interest in all your prayers
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